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"He spread it to them" means that he physically transmitted it to them. He did not. Pointing out your misuse of the English language does not make me a sycophant.

Can you provide any evidence that Trump spread the virus to anyone?

This is some pretty heavy-duty obfuscation. What is the business case for this amount of work towards preventing reverse-engineering? Decent rate limiting should be much more effec…

Well, his username is "stallmanite"; what did you expect?

Firefox Sync used to use J-PAKE but switched to a different mechanism later on (not sure about what is now used). Is anyone familiar enough to offer insight on why it was dropped a…

It's definitely worth doing, if nothing else, for the experience. It's gotten harder to run one's own mail server due to aggressive IP reputation systems and because many ISPs bloc…

Shell scripts get a bad rap where they probably shouldn't. This stems mostly from people who write them as a quick hack and never replace them with something "more serious". It doe…

Other than consistency with coding style, I've never got the appeal of camel or pascal case. Is it a file size concern, maybe? I guess an underscore could take up additional space …

Who cares who wrote it? Good code is good code, and Reiser is still often the best option for storing lots of small files. I don't think it makes sense to change the name, but it's…

> Women don't really need to do anywhere near as much housework as they do. The amount of hours worked by a homemaker has stayed steady at 60 hours per week for about 300 years whi…

Worked for me on Arch, too.

Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22206874

Legislators tend to do a very bad job of creating technical standards. There is no constitutionally-enumerated power for Congress to regulate which character-encoding standard is u…

That story made a big splash but was never proven. Bloomberg claimed sources it conveniently couldn't reveal. I'm just as suspicious of China as the next guy, and they've probably …

Gives a whole new meaning to "off-shoring", doesn't it.